It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUSNature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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